Residents of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province receive text messages to inform them of the city’s dust pollution levels. According to Department of Environment deputy head Saeed Motessadi, giving people…
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Registration of information on cancer cases in different parts of the country is one of the pillars of the ‘National Cancer Control Program’ to be implemented in Tehran and 10 other provinces in…
The fourth City Council Assistants Election will be held on Friday, (March 13) in Tehran. More than 13,500 candidates are contesting the 3,540 assistant seats to preside over the affairs of the…
Twenty percent of road accidents occur due to cell phone use while driving, Traffic Police Chief Eskandar Momeni said.
Five percent of cell phone-related crashes happen “as the driver is…
Iranian transit drivers travelling from the Turkmen capital Ashgabat to the city of Mary in the south-east of the country, often pass by trucks with both Turkmen and Iranian license plates.
A bill on teachers’ assessment will be presented to parliament soon, said chairman of the Majlis education and research committee Mohammad-Mehdi Zahedi, at a meeting of the Supreme Cultural…
Zahra in her mid-twenties is from Garateh village in Esfarayen county in North Khorasan Province.
“Today I stand here – proud and happy,” she says. “I have hope again in the future.…
There are 23 AIDS clubs managed and supported by the State Welfare Organization (SWO), where individuals who are HIV positive, are receiving “living and training services and support,” said Majid…
A special fund for infertile couples will be established in the coming year (starts Mar. 21) for infertile couples. Minister of Health Hassan Hashemi said the fund will be used to offer interest-…
Islamic State militants have destroyed ancient remains of the 2,000-year-old city of Hatra in northern Iraq, officials said on Saturday, in their latest attack on Iraqi antiquities which the…
Vice-President and head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masoud Soltanifar reaffirmed the government’s commitment to promoting and supporting development…
Over 600,000 foreign visitors entered the country through the West Azerbaijan borders in the 11 months of the current Iranian year (ends March 20), announced the tourism deputy of the provincial…
A system whereby citizens can determine the authenticity of all medicines by text messaging the codes on their label has been launched by the Food and Drug Agency (FDA), said its head Rasoul…
The top three cars involved in the highest number of accidents are Pride, Paykan and Pick-up Nissan respectively. Traffic Police Chief General Eskandar Momeni said a high…
Homeless women are rounded up and sent to shelters every night, and “90% of the women have been organized so far” said welfare deputy at Tehran Municipality Farzad Hooshyar. Since most of the…
Depressing news from the world of psychology: Nearly every stereotype about the gender gap with regards to narcissism, ambition and leadership is right.
Junk food production cannot be stopped. However, its consumption can be checked and controlled by imposing extra taxes on such food products,said Health Minister Seyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi.…
The population explosion in the metropolis of Tehran along with the massive building boom calls for immediate attention at the national level “as the city has surpassed its capacity and the…
Advocating flexibility and “leaving room for cultural and psychological progress” in decision making, Head of the Supreme Council of Education Mehdi Navid Adham said a ‘’black and white’’ thinking…
There are 1.2 million active business owners in the country whose debt to the Social Security Organization (SSO) is about $ 1.6 billion.
Hazardous air pollution in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province forced officials to close schools on Saturday.
“Schools at all levels have been ordered to close due to dangerous levels of air…
The European-Egyptian archaeological mission headed by famed Egyptologist Horig Sourouzian, unearthed two busts of the lioness goddess Sekhmet at the north-eastern side of the pillar halls of King…
To introduce the written heritage of Iran to the world, foreign tourists will be able to visit Iranian National Library and Archive as part of their tour package from next Iranian year (starting…
The Internet has long had a love affair with cats — and now has cat-loving tourists flocking to a small, remote island in southern Japan where cats outnumber humans six to…
The UN health agency says the world is eating too much sugar and people should slash their intake to just six to 12 teaspoons per day — an amount that could be exceeded with a single can of soda.…
